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Edward Michael "Bear" Grylls (born 7 June 1974), known as Bear Grylls, is a British mountaineer, adventurer, author, television presenter, and motivational speaker

He was educated at Eton College and studied for a degree in Hispanic Studies from London University. He served part-time for three years in the British Special Forces in the SAS TA before a parachuting accident broke his spine in three places, forcing him to leave the Forces.

Grylls hosted an 8-part documentary series known in the U.S. on Discovery Channel as Man vs. Wild, and titled Born Survivor: Bear Grylls for Channel 4 and Discovery Channel in Europe, Asia & Africa. The series features Grylls being dropped into some of the most inhospitable places on earth and showing viewers how to survive. Season 2 premiered in the US on June 15th, 2007.

His brand of TV includes sheer cliff climbs, wading massive rapids, and even wrapping his urine-soaked t-shirt around his head to help stave off the desert heat. Bear has eaten snakes (with some controversy[6]), rubbed ice on his body to warm up after jumping into an icy lake, squeezed elephant dung into his mouth for water, ripped raw chunks of meat off a dead zebra with his teeth, drank his own urine, and spent hours constructing a bamboo bridge in attempt to cross a river. Intermittently, Bear also regales the viewer with tales of other adventurers stranded in the wilderness. These stories inevitably end in one of two ways: someone gets "lucky" and survives or someone struggles to remain alive for weeks on end but eventually dies.

The Discovery Channel and Channel 4 are reviewing the Man vs. Wild program following allegations that the show deceived viewers into believing that he was really stranded in the wild when he wasn't.